sushibowl · HackerTrans

19 dagen geledendiscuss

This washing machine sized box draws 50kW of power. It wouldn't be able to heat up a cold swimming pool very much, but it would be enough to keep a pool that's already hot at a stable temperature.

sushibowl

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Usually, when refineries flare something like that it's because what they are burning is not suitable for use, and making it suitable would cost more than the product would sell for.

Often methane as a by-product of oil production is flared, because the amount is small enough that it's not worth setting up processing plants and supply chains for. Other times, the fluid is heavily contaminated by e.g. sulfur compounds, and would be costly to purify. Still other times the production of the fluid is unreliable or intermittent, and cannot sustain a continuous production process.

Although, flare gas recovery systems exist nowadays to make use of these waste gases, commonly for local power production for the refinery itself.

sushibowl

4 maanden geledendiscuss

keychron does make one: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q12-max-qmk-via-w...

found this one as well, don't know the brand: https://www.bloodyusa.com/product.php?pid=11&id=166

sushibowl

4 maanden geledendiscuss

There are unregistered trademarks as well as registered ones. Usually the "TM" symbol is applied to unregistered trademarks, and the ® symbol for registered ones. Both enjoy protection, although it's generally an easier time in court when your trademark is registered.

Whether actively defending your trademark is actually required is a bit of a nuanced topic. Generally, trademarks can be lost through genericide (the mark becomes a generic term for the type of product) or abandonment. Abandonment happens when either the mark owner stops using the mark itself, or takes an action that weakens the mark. The question, then, is whether failing to defend infringing use constitutes a weakening action. Courts differ on this, and there is a large gray area between "we didn't immediately sue a local mom-and-pop shop" and "we allowed a rival company to use the mark erroneously across several states for years without taking action."

sushibowl

8 maanden geledendiscuss

You are absolutely correct. Valve's linux push was driven by developments in the windows platform, specifically around the release of windows 8. Microsoft was pushing a windows store similar to Apple's app store, and Valve was unequivocally stating that they were worried Microsoft would basically lock down the platform and only allow software sales through their own store, destroying their steam business. Gabe said it plainly himself (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377):

> Mr Newell, who worked for Microsoft for 13 years on Windows, said his company had embraced the open-source software Linux as a "hedging strategy" designed to offset some of the damage Windows 8 was likely to do.

> "There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"

> This is seen by commentators, external to be a reference to the inclusion of a Windows Store in the Microsoft operating system.

Having an open platform is good for consumers, but Valve is primarily looking out for themselves here. Gabe realized that windows could take Apple's IOS route (i.e. https://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the...) and lock down their OS, and everything he's done since has been an effort to protect his company against that existential threat.

sushibowl

9 maanden geledendiscuss

With respect to tagged pointers, there seems to be some recent movements on that front in CPython: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/132509

sushibowl

10 maanden geledendiscuss

There's no base 60 involved, it's the energy available divided by the power delivered:

178.8 Watt hours / 8300 Watts ≈ 0.0215 hours

sushibowl

11 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm sort of the inverse of this author: I have always liked Python and disliked Ruby. It's true though that python has changed a lot, and it's a mixed bag IMHO. I think every language feature python has added can have a reasonable argument made for its existence, however collectively it kind of makes the language burgeon under the weight of its own complexity. "one way to do it" really hasn't been a hard goal for the language for a while.

I'm really charmed by ML style languages nowadays. I think python has built a lot of kludges to compensate for the fact that functions, assignments, loops, and conditionals are not expressions. You get comprehensions, lambdas, conditional expressions, the walrus operator... most statements have an expression equivalent now.

it seems like, initially, Guido was of the opinion that in most cases you should just write the statement and not try "to cram everything in-line," so to speak. However it can't be denied that there are cases where the in-line version just looks nice. On the other hand now you have a statement and an expression that is slightly different syntactically but equivalent semantically, and you have to learn both. Rust avoids this nicely by just making everything an expression, but you do get some semicolon-related awkwardness as a result.

sushibowl

12 maanden geledendiscuss

As far as I know, the science on this is far from settled. There is no consensus and the evidence in favor of a trophic cascade in Yellowstone came predominantly from two studies done by the same team/person. Later studies failed to replicate findings.

Do wolves fix ecosystems? CSU study debunks claims about Yellowstone reintroduction

https://eu.coloradoan.com/story/news/2024/02/09/colorado-sta...

A good story: Media bias in trophic cascade research in Yellowstone National Park

https://academic.oup.com/book/26688/chapter-abstract/1954809...

sushibowl

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There was an article about this journey just recently: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-trai...

Unfortunately you may have to wait some time, at the moment the journey is not be completable because the Paris-Moscow express service (and indeed all train service between Russia and Western Europe) is suspended due to sanctions against Russia.

sushibowl

vorig jaardiscuss

Dutch banks did this, it is called iDeal: https://www.ideal.nl/en/

iDeal is ubiquitous in The Netherlands for individuals sending money to each other, and for online payments. However it does not support NFC payments in physical stores. Dutch banks decided to go with Google/Apple wallet for this. I believe in the longer term Wero https://wero-wallet.eu/ (and potentially the digital euro https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...) is supposed to take over this usecase in the EU.

sushibowl

vorig jaardiscuss

> Every meal is a gift from Harber & Bosch + the world order allowing international trade.

Let's not forget Norman Borlaug

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

This is generally unknown, of course. However it currently appears that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, i.e. it is expanding faster and faster.

Obviously it can't be ruled at that at some point this would stop and/or reverse. But there's no reason to think so, and if we're considering arbitrary future changes then we may as well consider that the universe might suddenly start heating up again in the future, or more mass will start appearing out of nowhere. Or god appears and hands out free decryption keys to everyone.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

A key (hah!) property of key derivation functions is that they allow you to customize the key that you get out, mainly because you may need a specific length (e.g. 512 bits) for whatever encryption algorithm you're using. bcrypt lacks this functionality: you only ever get 192 bits of hash.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

The proof is not really formal, but you could view the shown system as a minimal subset of an arbitrarily shaped large system.

For the system to be distributed it must have at least two nodes, and to be available all nodes must respond to requests. So however the rest of the system is shaped, the proof still holds.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

They are not. The proposal text itself doesn't mention taxing "the 1% richest" or any threshold at all really. It's quite vague on the specifics:

> Firstly, we call on the European Commission to draft a proposal for a directive establishing a European excess wealth tax, based on Article 115 TFEU.

In any case, the proposal is for a wealth tax, so income is irrelevant. I think the proposed wealth threshold for taxation is supposed to vary by country.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Unfortunately a shrinking population leads to a situation where there are more older people alive than young people, which makes our retirement and health care systems quite unsustainable.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Usually on the bottle of lactase enzyme pills it will just say "take before consuming a lactose-containing product." But actual usage will really depend on the degree of lactose intolerance of the person. For example my wife is only mildly lactose intolerant: she can consume hard cheeses and many processed products containing dairy just fine, but soft cheese, milk, cream, etc. will give her digestive problems.

She mostly gets by simply avoiding these things, but she really really loves a good quality burrata so she will take an enzyme pill when she wants to indulge.

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

> The JS ecosystem encourages using a million tiny unmaintained packages and that is bad

continuing on this, I wonder if this is a cultural thing or if there are actual technical choices made in NPM that play a role. Could NPM change something in their package management to change this? Should they?

sushibowl

2 jaar geledendiscuss

Overall this looks nice, but I found myself stumbling over the ToSpan syntax:

    let span = 5.days().hours(8).minutes(1);

It feels sort of weird how the first number appears in front, and then all the other ones are function arguments. I suppose if you don't like that you can just write:

    let span = Span::new().days(5).hours(8).minutes(1);

at the expense of a couple characters, which is not too bad.

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